Camden councilman calls for police chief's resignation

11:29 PM,
Nov. 12, 2012

Sociologist Dahn Shaulis, 51, visits the crosses near Camden City Hall on Monday morning, taking several pictures. An adjunct instructor at Rutgers, he says the talk of removing the crosses is 'very unfortunate.'

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Kevin C. Shelly
Courier-Post Staff

Meant to call out city government's acquiescence to a staggering homicide rate, a display of crosses outside City Hall is getting under the skin of at least one elected official, who on Monday called for the police chief to resign.

Councilman Brian Coleman wants the hand-painted crosses, which symbolize the city's 58 murder victims so far this year, to be removed from Roosevelt Plaza.

"I didn't think that was the proper place, with the backdrop of City Hall," Coleman said Monday. ...